ABSTRACT

The essays in Redirections in Critical Theory re-analyse major figures and discussions in critical theory, asking questions often neglected or overlooked by a readership ever in pursuit of new theoretical positions.
Contributors look at the work of major theorists and writers, including William Empson, Deleuze, Guattari, Chekov and Jameson. Concepts which have been destabilized in modern critical theory, such as truth, self, action and history, are reassessed through their work, shedding new light on many important issues in critical studies today.
Redirections in Critical Theory brings together established critics and new names in the field of theory. It will be an important text for students of literature, critical theory and philosophy.

chapter 2|56 pages

Oedipus Wrecks? or, Whatever Happened to Deleuze and Guattari?

Rereading Capitalism and Schizophrenia

chapter 3|31 pages

The Irredeemability of Change

Action and structure in the late plays of Anton Chekhov

chapter 4|67 pages

In Search of Totality

On narrative and history in Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious